Keywords is exactly President of the Jewish Community
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Report of the Jewish Community Leadership, Bookkeeping and Accounting

IJA Number: 1281 · Language: Arabic

This is the report of the Baghdadi Jewish community leadership including bookkeeping and accounting from 4/1/1949 to 1/31/1953. It discusses the affects of the policies regarding abrogation of Iraqi citizenship and contains detailed accounting records of income and expenses of the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. The documents mostly address a proposal raised from within the Jewish Lay Council to cancel tuition to the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools due to the dire financial situation experienced by many Baghdadi Jewish families.

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Correspondence Regarding Wills, Estates, and Trusts of Community Members; Community Establishments Receiving Funds

IJA Number: 3322 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included is correspondence regarding the wills, estates, and trusts of several wealthy community members (Sir Ezra David, Raphael Aaron Gubbay) and where their money is going within the community. Correspondence is between community leaders, family members, and attorneys regarding splitting up of money and receipts of receiving funds.

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Student Award Ceremonies; Short Story Contests; Receipts; Correspondence; Student Records, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3316 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash schools. They contain printed booklets for student awards ceremonies recognizing students from Shamash Secondary School, Frank Iny School, and Menahem S. Daniel's School. There are the results of a short story or essay contest for the Frank Iny and Shamash schools, including instructions for judges on how to score submissions and judge score cards. The file also contains ledgers of students receiving the awards and enrollment information; handwritten receipts for fees; correspondence regarding student affairs; exam scores; school supply receipts; and class rosters.

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Correspondence, Receipts, Student Files, Records of Property Owned, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3303 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. There is correspondence from the 1930s-1940s between the Jewish Lay Council, Jewish Hospitals Committee and various school administrations. Other documents include court cases, requests for financial help, and deeds and property records owned by the Baghdadi Jewish community. There are also architectural drawing plans, contracts, and correspondence discussing price negotiations. This is followed by student files from the 1960s, containing individual student records, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, letters of recommendation, photographs, and correspondence regarding student affairs. There is a printed booklet notating a teachers’ school service record from 1944. There are collections of receipts from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, the South British Insurance Company, the Rafidain Insurance Company, various local vendors and taxi services, pharmacies, utilities, as well as rosters of patient information and correspondence from the Ministry of Culture of Iranian Schools in Iraq.

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Change in Leadership of an Endowment

IJA Number: 1293 · Language: Arabic

This item contains a memo concerning a change in leadership of an endowment on account of the current office-holder's travel outside of Iraq.

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Documents Regarding Management of Menahem Daniel's Properties

IJA Number: 1288 · Language: Arabic

These are documents about Menahem Daniel's trust properties managed by the Baghdadi Jewish community, the printed regulations of the Jewish Properties Committee, and a blank ledger that is supposed to be on the properties belonging to charitable trusts managed by the Jewish community followed by a report.

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Correspondence Between the President of the Jewish Community and the Court of Materials Identification

IJA Number: 1287 · Language: Arabic

These documents include correspondence between the President of the Jewish Community and the Court of Materials Identification requesting information regarding Meir Elias Hospital donor names. The documents also mention Waqf donations; the abrogation of citizenship; legal documents; forms registering allocations; and the Police Office of Travelers and Citizens.

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Correspondence between Iraqi Government and President of the Jewish Community about Jewish Citizens

IJA Number: 3782 · Language: Arabic

This item contains requests from the Iraqi government to the President of the Jewish Community about Baghdadi Jewish community members that have passed away or abrogated their citizenship. Correspondence also confirms citizenship, religion, and marriages. There is legal paperwork regarding the endowment of Ezra Menahem Daniel. Included is an unrelated part of a book with commentary on the Talmud.

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Verification Certificates, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3748 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are certificates for birth, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death of community members. There is correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community regarding financial hardships, marriage disputes, medical assistance needs and travel for medical treatment, and confirmations of character, identity or citizenship. There are also documents confirming religious education and births in other countries including Austria, Greece, and Romania. Birth certificates verifying birth dates go as far back as the 1870s.

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Documents from the Jewish Religious Court, Baghdad

IJA Number: 3701 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The item contains records from the Jewish Religious Courts and the Iraqi and the Baghdad Court of Appeals. The court records concern family matters such as marriage, divorce, custody of children, and inheritance issues.

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Announcements and Other School Documents Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 3698 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools in Baghdad. Included are announcements posted by the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools with information about examination results, class schedules, disciplinary reports, rules and regulations. The item also contains documents about school sporting events, English language learning material, and test administration guidelines.

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Correspondence regarding Jews being Harassed by Iraqi Government; Studying Abroad in London; Requests for Finical Assistance; Income Tax Reports

IJA Number: 3697 · Language: Multiple Languages

This item includes documents detailing internal administrative matters of the Baghdadi Jewish community such as employment actions, resignations, letters of recommendation, property management, and decisions of the organization. There are also requests for financial assistance and other personal matters, letters from members of the Baghdadi Jewish community to the Jewish Lay Council about increasingly harsh treatment by the government, and reports of individuals being arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned. Other documents include correspondence to the British government to organize a Passover Seder for Jewish soldiers, scholarships to study in British schools, Baghdadi Jews abrogating their citizenship and emigrating abroad, the collection of donations for Palestinian refugees and wounded soldiers, lists of members of the Baghdadi Jewish community in detention facilities, and financial documents such as income tax reports and receipts.

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Ḥevrah Ḳadishah Receipts, Financial Information, Correspondence

IJA Number: 3169 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include files from the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Jewish burial society; receipts regarding the administration of an endowment; handwritten financial notes; and a letter from a lawyer regarding community financial affairs. This also includes half of a page of קמיע ירושלמית שמירה ליולדת, (Ḳameʻa Yerushalmit Shrirah le-Yuledet), an amulet guard for pregnant women. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Budget Reports, Exam Results, Reports about Conditions, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3109 · Language: Arabic

This item contains documents pertaining to the schools administered by the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included among the documents are budgetary reports, matriculation exam results, and reports concerning conditions within the schools.

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Correspondence, Jewish Religious Court

IJA Number: 3094 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are legal documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The files contain records and correspondence from the Jewish Religious courts pertaining to legal issues concerning members of the Jewish community.

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Ezra Menahem Daniel Endowment Paperwork; Receipts, President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3087 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community include endowment and lease paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews about the administration of charitable funds and properties belonging to the Ezra Menahem Daniel endowment. This item also contains receipts from the President of the Jewish Community. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Endowment Paperwork, Financial Information, Architectural Plans, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 3084 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include, paperwork concerning the lease of roof space, endowment paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, receipts, financial correspondence, and an architectural drawing. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Correspondence Regarding Rules of Committee Elections

IJA Number: 3113 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They include correspondence between the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, and the President of the Jewish Community regarding the rules for the election of committee members, elections and resignations, travel of committee members, endowments, and financial payments. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community; Financial Information

IJA Number: 2876 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community; receipts for car repairs; lease agreements; financial agreements; and correspondence regarding an endowment and legal matters.

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Correspondence between the Iraqi Directorate of Education and the President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2816 · Language: Arabic

These documents relate to education and include correspondence between the Iraqi Directorate of Education Office of Primary and Secondary Schools and the President of the Jewish Community regarding student enrollment, new admissions and expenses, as well as a speech from the Syrian education minister at UNESCO. This item also includes a report to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning a new periodical published by the Communist in Lebanon and Syria.

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Endowments, Alliance School Assets, Real Estate, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2788 · Language: Arabic

These archival documents contain information about endowments, the Alliance School assets, and real estate belonging to the Baghdadi Jewish Community.

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Birth and Marriage Certificates, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2742 · Language: Multiple Languages

These documents are from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are birth, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death certificates of community members. Certificates cover from the 1880s-1946. Many are in Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, and English.

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Financial Assistance, Employment Records, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2732 · Language: Arabic

These documents are financial records from the office of the President of the Jewish Community. They contain vouchers and receipts, payroll ledgers for employees of organizations administered by the Jewish community, and correspondence regarding salaries. The ink is very faded on several ledgers

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Legal Materials and Correspondence Related to the Daniel Family Endowment

IJA Number: 2632 · Language: Arabic

This is archival material in from the Baghdadi Jewish Community containing documents related to a legal case dealing with the disbursement and management of an endowment from the Daniel family. It includes court testimony, correspondence with the local endowment administrating official, the Jewish Lay Council, the President of the Jewish Community, school administrators; and the transfer of management of the waqf. There are original title property deeds dated 1924-1931.

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